Description: This is footage from a voiceovered newsreel from 1941 that includes boys from St Vincent de Paul Boys’ Orphanage, South Melbourne. The caption reads: ‘Various shots as schoolboys make camouflage nets for the army, they weave the thick thread in and out. One boy bounces on a net held by other boys to test the strength. The camera pans across boys at an orphanage making dummy hand grenades with sand instead of explosives for practise purposes. M/S of the bags in a pile. M/S of the boys gathered around a caricature of Adolf Hitler, they pick up the bags and pelt him with them.’
